Four Great Classical Novels was originally six masterpieces. Those two books were deleted. What?

At first, there were two books, Strange Tales from a Lonely Studio and Scholars. These two books were later deleted for two reasons. 1 point is that the audience of these two books is not as wide as the other four books, especially The Scholars, which is now known by fewer people. The second point is that the plots of these two books are too bizarre, especially the fairy and ghost stories in Strange Tales from a Lonely Studio, and some large-scale plots cannot be widely circulated. The Scholars is that the whole book is too depressing and dark, that is, there is no positive energy novel style that people need now that really flourished in the early Qing Dynasty. At that time, the four classical novels were The Journey to the West, Romance of the Three Kingdoms, Water Margin and Jin Ping Mei, but for the same reason as mentioned above, some plots in Jin Ping Mei were too big to be widely circulated, so the government banned them, so the four classical novels naturally had no place. Later, when A Dream of Red Mansions was born, Four Great Classical Novels was stolen with only half a book. Then the theme of the novel continued to develop, especially in the late Qing Dynasty, some frustrated literati began to write novels, and the more people wrote novels, the richer the content of the novels. Later, there will naturally be novels that can be compared with the four classical novels, so people re-selected them and divided the two books, Strange Tales from a Lonely Studio and The Scholars, into masterpieces, and six new masterpieces were born. Then in the Republic of China, people's minds were constantly liberated and they had a contemptuous attitude towards ghosts and gods. Therefore, Strange Tales from a Lonely Studio was naturally despised by people, so it also lost its qualification as a masterpiece. At that time, some satires on officialdom in The Scholars were too realistic, so some people began to dislike the book and even began to ridicule it, so The Scholars gradually became like this.